Leviticus 19:16

World English Bible (2000)

"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:1 : 1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
  • Exod 23:7 : 7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Ezek 22:9 : 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
  • Prov 11:13 : 13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
  • Jer 6:28 : 28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
  • Matt 26:60-61 : 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward, 61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-13 : 10 Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death." 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council, 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • Acts 24:4-9 : 4 But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words. 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. 6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him. 7 8 By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him." 9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
  • Exod 20:16 : 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

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    17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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  • Exod 20:15-17
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  • Deut 5:19-20
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    19 "Neither shall you steal.

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  • Exod 23:1-2
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  • Ps 15:3
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  • Deut 19:14
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  • Zech 8:16-17
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    16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

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    17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

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  • Deut 19:10-11
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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

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  • Prov 20:19
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    19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

  • Lev 19:35
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    35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

  • 2 Chr 19:10
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  • Prov 25:17-18
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  • Exod 23:6-7
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  • Prov 25:8-9
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    8 Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

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    11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

  • Jer 9:4
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    4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

  • Lev 19:33
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    33 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

  • Ps 5:6
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  • Deut 16:19-20
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    13 "You shall not murder.

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  • Jas 4:11
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  • Exod 20:7
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  • Deut 5:17
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    17 "You shall not murder.

  • Prov 11:13
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    13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.